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		<title>Happening this week: all the fun of the Boar Cup!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The quest for the Boar Cup will begin Monday, March 8 with opening ceremonies at 2:25 in Braemar.  The 6th, 7th and 8th grades will compete in over 30 different events during the course of the week in order to declare themselves Boar Cup Champions 2010.  The events will take place during a special Boar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.org/2010/03/07/happening-this-week-all-the-fun-of-the-boar-cup/</link>
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		<title>GUS Students Win Prestigious Art Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Six GUS students were awarded Gold and Silver Keys at the 55th Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards annual competition this year. More than 3,500 Massachusetts students in grades 7 through 12 entered the competition. An estimated 100,000 submissions are made to the Scholastic Art &#38; Writing Awards nationwide. At both the regional and national levels, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.org/2010/02/25/gus-students-win-prestigious-art-awards/</link>
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		<title>Valentine concert warms the hearts of young and old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The musical talents of GUS&#8217;s fourth and fifth graders were appreciated by people aged from 4 to 90 during the latest in what may become an annual Valentine&#8217;s Day event.  Led by our wonderfully talented music director Patty Clark,  fourth and fifth graders boarded a school bus and headed first to the Harborlight Nursery School [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.org/2010/02/16/valentine-concert-warms-the-hearts-of-young-and-old/</link>
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		<title>Open Mike raises over $1800 for Honduras and Appalachia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The GUS community was treated to a wonderful evening of home grown entertainment on Friday night, as student and and faculty performers entertained a large crowd for almost three hours with music ranging from classical through jazz to rock and roll. New to the open mike this year was a showing of original animations by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.org/2010/02/06/open-mike-raises-over-1800-for-honduras-and-appalachia/</link>
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		<title>Arts Block Evening a Great Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents, friends, siblings, and faculty filled the Nance Assembly Room to view the artwork created by the eighth grade since the beginning of the fall,  to listen to live music, enjoy refreshments provided by the hard working committee, and to hear presentations by remarkably articulate and knowledgeable eighth graders. They gave fascinating insights into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.org/2010/01/30/arts-block-evening-a-great-success/</link>
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		<title>New exhibit by Kathleen Volp in Johnson Gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GUS is pleased to announce the installation of an exhibition by artist Kathleen Volp.  Please visit the Glen Urquhart School’s Johnson Gallery (Lower School Building), to view Ms. Volp’s mixed media assemblages and paintings.
Kathleen Volp blends the actual with the abstract. Her mixed media pieces integrate memory and story and are set within pattern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.org/2010/01/25/new-exhibit-by-kathleen-volp-in-johnson-gallery/</link>
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		<title>Japanese drumming thrills audience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rhythmically tapping feet and hands and great shouts were heard from the audience as Odaiko New England gave a demonstration of Japanese taiko drumming at a recent assembly.  In pantomime, the actors showed how the drum was a vital means of communication in many aspects of life in early Japan, from invoking the rain god, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.org/2010/01/21/japanese-drumming-thrills-audience/</link>
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		<title>Open House coming up on Jan. 21st.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our winter Open House is coming up! Join us on Thursday, January 21st from 9–11 a.m. Spend the morning observing classes and speaking with current parents, teachers, and administrators. There will be information meetings which offer an opportunity to ask questions. We also offer individual tours weekday mornings. Snow date is Friday, January 22nd. Please [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.org/2010/01/05/open-house-coming-up-on-jan-21st/</link>
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		<title>Solstice Celebration Sparkles in the Darkness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New life was breathed into a tradition with ancient roots as GUS students and faculty celebrated Solstice on Friday,  the last day of the school term. Solstice has been Glen Urquhart&#8217;s traditional holiday celebration since the inception of the school. It is a perfect, non-sectarian theme in which to acknowledge other faiths but to celebrate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.org/2009/12/22/solstice-celebration-sparkles-in-the-darkness-2/</link>
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		<title>The Eighth Grade Arts Block Evening is Coming!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 8th Grade Arts Block Evening is a tradition for all students in their last year at Glen Urquhart.  It is a time for the students to celebrate their creative talents in the visual arts and dance.  The event includes an artist&#8217;s reception with live music, gallery, and dance performances.  Mark your calendars for 5:45–8:30 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.org/2009/12/10/the-annual-eighth-grade-arts-block-evening-is-coming/</link>
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